Lab+5

Privacy?** "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." Google CEO Eric Schmidt, December 2009
 * CCT205 - LAB 5

Google features many useful documents that are popular among individuals such as; documents, latitude (see where your friends are on a Mac), gmail emails, documents, and iGoogle. One of Google's philosophy is "don't be evil" (corporate principle) but ironically, all information that is interacted with Google's features are tracked down. That's right-- typed mails, deleted mails, what was being searched, documents (legal or personal if applicable), banking informations, it's all somewhere stored in Google's hard drives and super computers.

When Google CEO Eric Schmidt in December 2009 was asked about privacy issues with Google, he replies: //"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."// I strongly disagree to this statement because privacy is something that everybody in the world have. Even through relationship in the family, between couples, husband and wife, privacy is very important to individuals and should be respected. For example, banking and the amount you make to some people is a very important privacy that they don't like others to know.

Since the internet provides the world's largest database of information, you could just find about anything on it. Topics like health, science, arts, literatures, news, to the more explicate adult contents that are exposed on the internet. Essentially, the items that you search for on the internet becomes a part of your identity and/or routine. These information may tell a lot about the individual, such as what your interests are, what you are doing (e.g. ebay'ing, banking online, watching news, watching a movie online, etc). While Google have access to these information, they know exactly what we are doing.

I think the statement is very irresponsible, because many of our REGULAR routines (such as banking, or buying something on ebay) could be considered as part of our personal privacy.